The College of William & Mary

Bowden, Mary Weatherspoon. Washington Irving. Boston: Twayne, 1981. Bowden underlines the integrity of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., in which “Rip Van Winkle” first performed, and proposes that Irving’s most highest literary accomplishment was his style. Though the book was not known, it include two of the most famous American short stories, one being “Rip Van Winkle” Mary Bowden received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. She taught in…

This week I really enjoyed reading and learning about Thomas Jefferson. I enjoy learning new things and I was very interested to discover how involved he was in his studies and how he took the initiative to educate himself. It is encouraging to see that someone who did not necessarily have an easy time growing up after the death of his father, still continued to pursue his education and strive to live out his dreams. Jefferson did not limit himself to only one area of interest. He learned all…

Mary Shelly, born of two great minds and much wealth, suffered many different misfortunes. Mary indeed had advantageous knowledge, living and being born from William Godwin, but was no stranger to death. Mary’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died after giving birth to her. This death was not the first to injure Mary Shelly and shape her fate. Many people she knew passed away some by suicide, even her newborn children had died in her arms. Poor Mary was accustomed to the horror of death. She was as…

“I tried, and I did it.” - William Kamkwamba. William grew up in Malawi, Africa, and was born in 1987. He grew up with two sisters and at one point had a dog named Khamba. William is a 29 year old man now, but when he built his first windmill to produce electricity and irrigation for crops, he was fourteen. The book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is written by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba which is a memoir is about one of the two authors, William. William Kamkwamba deals with a famine,…

Alejandro Lopez Mrs. Gray Math II Honors 14 September 2016 Annie Jump Cannon Annie Jump Cannon was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware. Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, she had studied physics, mathematics, and astronomy at Wellesley College, she was a good student in mathematics, she went and worked at Harvard Observatory. She became a path that strong women want to follow in science, she discovered 300 variable stars and invented her own system of classification, which became the…

to be a politician, college administrator, lawyer, farmer. He went to college at William and Mary from (1774-1776), and he went to Camp Beltown Academy. James Monroe was the last American President from the “Virginia Dynasty”. He was the oldest out of all of his siblings. James Monroe is a father of three children, he was one son, and 2 daughters. His father died a year later after he turned his life into new directions. James Monroe was also an excellent student in college. James Monroe was…

James Monroe Patriot and President, written by Harriet Clement Marble an author who has published stores and poetry in several magazines depicts the life of James Monroe from birth to death in a chronological order. The book was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York in 1970. Harriet Marble does an excellent job of depicting and portraying Monroe’s life from, “Student to Soldier” to his most impactful action on the world, The Monroe Doctrine. This book is contains several dozen sources and…

Are you interested in people who failed but bounced back? Bethany Hamilton lost her arm, Oprah Winfrey was sexually abused, and Kevin Williams faced many struggles in his childhood. All three of them has a point where they struggled in life but they were all able to bounce back and become successful in life. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, MS. Oprah’s mother Vernita Lee and her father Veron Winfrey separated after she was born. Oprah has three siblings…

August of 1865. He came from a strong-headed family. In 1775, an ancestor of Charles Dawes’, William Dawes, rode with Paul Revere. His father was a Union soldier, Rufus Dawes and his mother was Mary Beman Gates, who studied law. He actually practiced law until 1894 in Nebraska. This was at the beginning of the American Revolution. Dawes completed college and got his Bachelor’s degree from Marietta College, then he attended law school and eventually returned to Marietta and got his Master’s…

Shot by George Zimmerman in 2012, seventeen year old Trayvon Martin had his life cut short. Zimmerman, who volunteered for his local neighborhood watch committee in Sanford, Florida, was acquitted of the homicide of Martin. He was released because evidence to contradict his claim of self-defense was not present, also, the state of Florida adopted so called, “Stand Your Ground” laws that supports Zimmerman’s case. “Stand Your Ground” laws eliminate the duty to retreat, or an attempt to get away,…